Diamond Head on UK TV BBC Midlands "Look Hear" program 1980 Line-up Sean Harris (vocals) Brian Tatler (guitar) Duncan Scott (drums) Colin Kimberley (bass)
I love the guitarist's tone. Nice, twangy, overdriven, right up my alley. Long live Diamond Head. Edit more than two fucking years later: BRIAN TATLER. HIS NAME IS BRIAN TATLER. AND THE BAND IS BACK AND ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw Diamond Head three times back in 82-83 this vid is nothing compared to watching them live.Sean Harris was one of the best front men ever and i've seen a few in fact the band were just amazing...the sad thing was that when the original drummer and bassist packed it in they were never really the same band again...but in saying that the Canterbury album was amazing and so ahead of it's time!!
@@claraboomday ahh fair enough, I've seen them twice but I'm only 27 so it was only Brian who original member but I met him when I was 18 luckily enough and he had all the time in the world to talk to us. Felt like I was talking to superman 😁
I've never heard of any yank classical composers.... but the indigenous Americans weren't into composing classical masterpieces lol the rest comes from Africa lol
Id say UK stsrted heavymetal with sabbath , judas priest, venom and such but US perfected it with bands like metalica , slayer, death and such and such
I only seen Diamond Head at their peak in a small local club where they came back & played at least 4 times and everyone loved them. Maiden, I've only ever seen at Donnington so it's not practical to compare them - but both great bands in their own way.
Because of treacherous family member management of the band and their affairs, when really - it should have been handled by a professional in the industry. and probably not touring the hell out of the US at the start of their career, thats how bands like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden had them licked!
this is not fair, they should be the biggest metal band in the world. people needa do more for them so they can get bigger. they are still touring and making albums and they kick as much as as ever!
+Omar Rodriguez Lars actually followed Diamond Head on tour in Britain(1980) before he even met Mustaine. Mustaine may have been a Diamond Head fan, but the first band he always mentions is Angel Witch as influence.
Great song from one of the absolute best albums of metal. I was 16 when I found Lightening to the Nations in 2015. How amazing does a, basically underground, album from 1980 have to be to still find a way through time like that
I love seeing the 70s and 80s clash here. The stage and fashion reek of the 70s but the style and energy of the 80s are ringing out even before they were there yet. Crowd on the left- 80s, crowd on the right- 70s
Watched these guys play 3 gigs in the early 80,s and their ability to get the whole place rockin from start to finish, was the equal of any band i've seen live - and i've seen em all !
i love and respect Diamond Head so much because without them there would be no Metallica. This is cuz Lars put an ad for a guitarist who wanted to do Diamond Head covers. So without Diamond Head that would have never happened, and hence no Metallica. I didn't know Diamond Head until I started listening to Metallica, and now they are one of my favorite bands!!!!
I was about 12 when the New Wave of British Heavy Metal was at its full apogee. Already learning guitar, I eagerly devoured any offering by Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Saxon, Def Leppard, Tigers of Pan Tang, Judas Priest et al. I though Britain was the Promised Land of rock and London paved with talented musicians. I finally made it to Blighty in the early 1990s, just in time for Britpop. Jesus fucking Christ with a pogo stick up his arse, the difference between the two movements was wider than the Grand Canyon and bigger than the Niagara Falls. One was packed with brilliant instrumentalists who churned original music performed with supernatural passion, the other one was over-full with talentless chancers, opportunists and musical conmen (and conwomen) who knew a good bandwagon useful for three-chords merchants to jump on. I made it just in time to witness the demise of Britain as a beacon for excellent music, and I rue the fact I was just too young to come over in 1980 when you could walk into a pub and catch the mighty Diamond Head proceeding to make the place shake. R.I.P. British Rock, and thanks for the priceless aural memories.....
At 0:49 replace the lyrics from The Mechanix or The Four Horseman. I.E. "The horseman are drawing nearer! On leather steeds they ride....they come to take your life!."
stephen graham More in stage presence/ moves, not so much in music. What’s your take on my statement, Mr. Graham. I hope that you are well today Sir! 🙏🏼
@@funzjag Now that u mention it, I think u may be right. On this track, the Led Zeppelin similarity that assails the viewer may be mostly due to the visuals. Thanks, man.
My understanding is that when metallica first started "covering" diamond head songs, they only said it was a cover if someone asked (at their shows). I remember reading a quote from James more or less saying this. Kill Em All is basically one big Diamond Head ripoff...
yeah essentially metallica was a big ripoff before burton. burton really made them go big and then they just continued on with mindless riffs with no real substance. the only musician of any substance in metallica is kirk hammett but his brilliance seems to get lost in the hetfield machine.
Stop giving music all these stupid fucking sub-genres. It’s not fuck by Proto-technical- progressive-mathematical-power- thrash metal or whatever the fuck people wanna randomly come up with. It’s just metal. Stop unnecessarily giving metal all these bullshit names
These truly deserve so much more recognition their impact is so obscure these guys along with that sabbath song invented and set the standard for thrash
Where did it go now? The sound, the way they look like, everything was tasty, i mean not only Diamond Head, but all NWoBHM bands. i can't understand nowadays rock music, it just not fun for me at all.
Peter Ahladas really according to whom? you have to write great songs to be the best or one of the best.. Pretty much all overkill songs are forgettable
Sylvan Screams Nope, Cliff was introduced to Diamond Head by Metallica and Cliff looked like he always does way before he met Metallica. Maybe it's a bass player thing?
Eh, the rickenbacker was incredibly popular around this time (much more than today) and the only other thing that’s similar is his hair.. and we all know how popular long hair was back then. Cliff was an unreal musician.
imagine being the band who influenced Metallica,and not getting appreciated for half a century
You mean like The Ramones?
So gay
@@lawrenceacuesta6460 what??
@@ThunderAppeal the Ramones influenced ME-tallicA wha!?
@@wicketandfriendsparody8068 I mean thrash is a mix of punk and metal
I love the guitarist's tone. Nice, twangy, overdriven, right up my alley. Long live Diamond Head.
Edit more than two fucking years later: BRIAN TATLER. HIS NAME IS BRIAN TATLER. AND THE BAND IS BACK AND ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Long live Diamond Head! Band is great!\m/
The birth of thrash metal
A metal song without a guitar solo... This raw, almost punk-style energy, reminds Iron Maiden's first album. :-)
yah even Metallicas version has a Kirk Hammet solo for that end bit because replicating that kinda perfection would be impossible...
Maiden always had solos in their albums. Terrific solos.
@deadlift nothing like Iron Maiden what drugs are you on. Compared to maidens first album this is almost pop.
@minners71 This is nwbhm
Actually this is a shortened version, that they play live. The studio version is twice the length and has a solo.
I love this band. The vocalist had an amazing voice.
Sean Harris! When Dave Mustaine started Megadeth, he wanted Sean Harris to be the singer of his new band.
I love it too!
He's the weak link for me!
Each to their own 😄👍
Total poser...But, his voice reminds me of CHER. LOL.
He had a bit of a Robert Plant thing going on
Best NWOBHM band by a mile. How bloody Saxon and Def Leppard made it and these guys didn't is a fucking crime..
Probably because it's generic and lacks any original melody
Dude sounds unbelievably good in the studio and on stage
Excellent singer, no tricks just skills.
one of the must underrated bands ever!!!
Sean Harris was a monster, and this Diamond Head its just absolute greatness...
damn he has a good voice. one of the best songs ever.
I saw Diamond Head three times back in 82-83 this vid is nothing compared to watching them live.Sean Harris was one of the best front men ever and i've seen a few in fact the band were just amazing...the sad thing was that when the original drummer and bassist packed it in they were never really the same band again...but in saying that the Canterbury album was amazing and so ahead of it's time!!
Why did they leave the band?
@@MUZZER81 I wish I knew the answer...
@@claraboomday ahh fair enough, I've seen them twice but I'm only 27 so it was only Brian who original member but I met him when I was 18 luckily enough and he had all the time in the world to talk to us. Felt like I was talking to superman 😁
@@MUZZER81 great fella!!
Saw Diamond Head many times and they were one of the best bands NEVER to make it big. I've still got their singles in a box somewhere.
In my opinion, Sean Harris is probably one of the best heavy metal singers.
Este tipo me recuerda mucho a Led Zeppelin 🤔
sound like joe tempest from Europe
Everyone should thank England for inventing heavy metal.
Birmingham is the home of metal sabbath, zeppelin, priest, diamond head magnum etc 🤘
Everything was invented in the American continent...
Disco.rock.cumbia reggae salsa.rap
Thrash metal. Merengue . cumbia .samba.blues .etc
Come on bro
@Antonio Gates. 😂. Metal was invented in the UK, broseph. Learn music history.
I've never heard of any yank classical composers.... but the indigenous Americans weren't into composing classical masterpieces lol the rest comes from Africa lol
Id say UK stsrted heavymetal with sabbath , judas priest, venom and such but US perfected it with bands like metalica , slayer, death and such and such
I think metalica and megadeth are thankful with these masters....great band
yes i think
I only seen Diamond Head at their peak in a small local club where they came back & played at least 4 times and everyone loved them. Maiden, I've only ever seen at Donnington so it's not practical to compare them - but both great bands in their own way.
love the voice of Harris
Good to see they are getting some real recognition now..I hope they can see this and what a fkn shame they didn't become bigger like iron maiden
Because of treacherous family member management of the band and their affairs, when really - it should have been handled by a professional in the industry. and probably not touring the hell out of the US at the start of their career, thats how bands like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden had them licked!
This just proves that a good song is a good song regardless of how old it is!!!!!!!!
this is not fair, they should be the biggest metal band in the world. people needa do more for them so they can get bigger. they are still touring and making albums and they kick as much as as ever!
Talent pure and simple. Those who know music, know how important this band are.
80s guys on the left, 70s guys on the right
The divide was real
Good point!
LMAO
Yeah it was, and I didn’t even really notice it at the time...now it is so clear
when you look at bands like these you can really see how metallica were influenced by them
Mustaine was the real diamond head fan . thats why,,, no diamond head. No mustaine. No metallica. No megadeth!!!
+Omar Rodriguez Lars actually followed Diamond Head on tour in Britain(1980) before he even met Mustaine. Mustaine may have been a Diamond Head fan, but the first band he always mentions is Angel Witch as influence.
+Omar Rodriguez amen
Great song from one of the absolute best albums of metal. I was 16 when I found Lightening to the Nations in 2015. How amazing does a, basically underground, album from 1980 have to be to still find a way through time like that
Bring back the 80's ,, please..
34 years later and the metal fans still get looked at the same way these kids did by the other ones LOL they just don't get it mannnnnnnnn
Right
Que recuerdos me trae esta canción, simplemente una verdadera obra de arte
This is so rockin..just a really cool tune...cant help but get into it...
Tatler / Harris great duo
This is some just good music, no matter what genre you're into
I love seeing the 70s and 80s clash here. The stage and fashion reek of the 70s but the style and energy of the 80s are ringing out even before they were there yet. Crowd on the left- 80s, crowd on the right- 70s
The energy came from 70's punk.
And the trends keep flowing haha. I like your analysis.
So amazing and ahead of its time
Man they made some real bangers. The earwormiest of the nwobhm bands.
Total respect! We owe these guys for twenty years of Metallica!
34 years now 🎸🇬🇧
legends
A great great band. An inspiration to many. Thank you Diamond Head for the great music.
Watched these guys play 3 gigs in the early 80,s and their ability to get the whole place rockin from start to finish, was the equal of any band i've seen live - and i've seen em all !
gorgeous voice
🤘🔥🔥🤘
DJ Delz?! Never knew you was into diamond head bud 👍🏻🤘🏻
Legendary! Get this album in your collection . One of the best albums I've ever heard
you would never see something on the BBC like this nowadays.
sean harris was one of the best amazing vocalist nuff said
I love how these guys are opened to citing Punk as a big influence on them, this song is a perfect example of that. Sick Band!
Legal que é ao vivo mesmo com equipamento e tudo. Bemo programa de tv!
this is so good
i love and respect Diamond Head so much because without them there would be no Metallica. This is cuz Lars put an ad for a guitarist who wanted to do Diamond Head covers. So without Diamond Head that would have never happened, and hence no Metallica. I didn't know Diamond Head until I started listening to Metallica, and now they are one of my favorite bands!!!!
I was about 12 when the New Wave of British Heavy Metal was at its full apogee. Already learning guitar, I eagerly devoured any offering by Iron Maiden, Motorhead, Saxon, Def Leppard, Tigers of Pan Tang, Judas Priest et al. I though Britain was the Promised Land of rock and London paved with talented musicians. I finally made it to Blighty in the early 1990s, just in time for Britpop. Jesus fucking Christ with a pogo stick up his arse, the difference between the two movements was wider than the Grand Canyon and bigger than the Niagara Falls. One was packed with brilliant instrumentalists who churned original music performed with supernatural passion, the other one was over-full with talentless chancers, opportunists and musical conmen (and conwomen) who knew a good bandwagon useful for three-chords merchants to jump on. I made it just in time to witness the demise of Britain as a beacon for excellent music, and I rue the fact I was just too young to come over in 1980 when you could walk into a pub and catch the mighty Diamond Head proceeding to make the place shake. R.I.P. British Rock, and thanks for the priceless aural memories.....
El heavy metal de finales de los70 y ochentas es la ley del rock duro y de todas sus vari antes es lo mejor
si solo viviera en esa era🤘😋
very raw and great!!!
listened to this today!
I wonder if this live performance is where Lars Ulrich got his inspiration for the “St. Anger”-snare... 😂
Actually, since Metallica used to be great fans of Diamond Head, this question is more serious than it may seems...
Sean Harris voice is HOT!
I absolutely love diamond head
Saw and met em' in 2002 in their only US appearance in New Jersey! Nice guys!
i love this fuckin shit, that boy bad, this the blues here
Tatler is jamming!
Que buen grupo!
Que buena rola!
おいらが生まれる1年前のライブに、映像を残してくれた方に感謝…！
Believe me, there was NO pop music that even remotely sounded like this in 1980.
Nope
Angel Witch's lp baphomet in the late 70's was pretty darn close.
At 0:49 replace the lyrics from The Mechanix or The Four Horseman. I.E. "The horseman are drawing nearer! On leather steeds they ride....they come to take your life!."
Dad Brad
I’ve listened to both these songs for years and never caught that! Good ear!
Kill em all 45% diamond head 45% motorhead 10% metallica lol
Finally some else heard that. Surprised they didn’t get sued!
Damn this is killer!!!
great energy and d-beat, the 2020 re-recorded version is killer too
Leif Garrett killing it on vocals!!
Ha ha
Damn, headbanging goes way back
Boootoinggg..
Goes even farther back than this session...Ozzy Ozbourne and Angus Young were banging their heads in the early to mid seventies. \m/
Great Video, Thanks
Was playing this song in my dreams last night. X)
No Diamond Head= No Tallica.
jajajjajajajajja
Gore Elohim True!
Diamond Head appear to have been heavily influenced by Zep right here.
stephen graham More in stage presence/ moves, not so much in music. What’s your take on my statement, Mr. Graham. I hope that you are well today Sir! 🙏🏼
@@funzjag Now that u mention it, I think u may be right. On this track, the Led Zeppelin similarity that assails the viewer may be mostly due to the visuals. Thanks, man.
Dude reminds me of the guy in Overkill.
Bobby Blitz!
That's some super early head banging stuff. Great times!
Awesome!
My understanding is that when metallica first started "covering" diamond head songs, they only said it was a cover if someone asked (at their shows). I remember reading a quote from James more or less saying this. Kill Em All is basically one big Diamond Head ripoff...
yeah essentially metallica was a big ripoff before burton. burton really made them go big and then they just continued on with mindless riffs with no real substance. the only musician of any substance in metallica is kirk hammett but his brilliance seems to get lost in the hetfield machine.
zarni000 Every band you listen too is a rip off of the Beatles so let’s not go there mate
@@JordanT.Zacharias lol and the Beatles are a ripoff of rhythm and blues artists
@@zarni000 True that.
@@zarni000 "nothing new under the sun"... someone just finds a way to add a new flavor to it.
Lord it just blows me wayaway when young sprouting metallurchins don't know who or why is DIAMOND HEAD, come on...
great band..
Thanks for the upload.
DIAMOND HEAD
were/ARE
the ORIGINALS
the REAL McCOY
the JEN-YOOO-INE ART-TEEE-KALL
(the entire killemall album is contained within "Sucking My Love")
the leather reds are TIGHT.
Literally.
+1 freakin awesome band!
excellent footage!!
I see Lars in his green jumper
is this proto-thrash?
a lot of NWOBHM is, no doubt about it
Иван Гулиев nah, listen to sympthom of the universe, that could be considered proto thrash.
Yes proto thrash
Stop giving music all these stupid fucking sub-genres. It’s not fuck by Proto-technical- progressive-mathematical-power- thrash metal or whatever the fuck people wanna randomly come up with. It’s just metal. Stop unnecessarily giving metal all these bullshit names
Punk, Heavy, Speed, proto thrash
These truly deserve so much more recognition their impact is so obscure these guys along with that sabbath song invented and set the standard for thrash
Saw them in this year in Swindon as a 17 year old ❤
This band really reminds me of UFO for some strange reason. Might be the flying V and how the song sounds like Lights Out
UFO were one of their influences.
garage days was metallicas best album because they didnt write the music for it.
It is still my favorite
mine too
This is music!!!
What a vocalist 💪💪💪
fun fact: you're not here because you heard diamond before you heard metallica
Au contraire, I've been a Diamond "Head" for a very long time.
Says you. \../. >"< .\../
I first heard diamond head on brutal legend
Fun Fact: you're full of shit.
2 fun facts: 1. many of us were listening to Diamond Head well before metallica ever existed. 2. you’re a dumbass.
You can tell this is where Metallica basically got their sound from, but they improved on it a lot.
much more distortion
@@lovelybegum9662 It's because Metallica used EMG active pickups in their guitars!
Adding a second guitar is what did it. It's not rocket science.
You got that SO right!
I saw these guys last week with saxon Awsome
Where did it go now? The sound, the way they look like, everything was tasty, i mean not only Diamond Head, but all NWoBHM bands. i can't understand nowadays rock music, it just not fun for me at all.
Just like anything. It got stale and morphed back into Hard Rock, with Hair Metal going back to punk after the Grunge purge.
the lead singer looks like bobby blitz(overkill) lol
35 years ago, yes.
+Jake Aablog he does look like blitz except this guy here can actually sing
+James Rockford Blitz is one of the best metal vocalists.
Peter Ahladas
really according to whom?
you have to write great songs to be the best or one of the best.. Pretty much all overkill songs are forgettable
+James Rockford according to who?
Awesome. Diamond Head rules.
Thank You England. As I Love Heavy Metal Music
sounds like Led Zeppelin AND pre-Iron Maiden
Sounds like Punk to me
Try cleaning your ears out.
young headbangers :-)
I love.how tatler makes his solos into riffs.Inovative.
I would never speak ill of the dead, and he was a cool guy, BUT Cliff Burton nicked more than a little from this Bass Player!!
Well lets be honest..All of Metallica nicked everything from this band early on :D \m/
Sylvan Screams Nope, Cliff was introduced to Diamond Head by Metallica and Cliff looked like he always does way before he met Metallica. Maybe it's a bass player thing?
Eh, the rickenbacker was incredibly popular around this time (much more than today) and the only other thing that’s similar is his hair.. and we all know how popular long hair was back then. Cliff was an unreal musician.